“There’s a lot of us in this room that have had enough, and it’s time to start riding herd on the rest of these people that want to take your rights away from you,” Bahr said, according to a video posted on the gun caucus’ Facebook page.

“They will not go quietly into the good night. They need to be kicked to the curb and stomped on and run over a few times,” he said.

His comments can be viewed in the video below at the 1:02:30 mark.

Bahr is a member of the New House Republicans caucus, a group that recently broke off from the House GOP caucus. He is a small-business owner serving his second term.

“Encouraging violence endangers our communities and undermines our democracy, particularly when the statement is made by an elected official,” Walz said about Bahr’s comments. “While heated debates are a healthy part of the political process, this type of language is unacceptable and demands condemnation from people of all political parties.”

This wasn’t the only recent dust-up over the two gun proposals. House Republicans and members of the gun owners group criticized Democratic lawmakers for plans to hold a hearing on the bills Wednesday at Edina Middle School.

House Majority Leader Ryan Winkler said Democrats wanted to make it easier for students and parents to weigh in on the proposals. Winkler said in a statement the venue was moved back to the Capitol after “the gun lobby directed their activists to badger local school district officials.

Bryan Strawser, chair of the gun owners caucus, said Democrats had manufactured the issue and that Winkler was maligning responsible gun owners. “Had they chosen not to use students and schools as a prop for their anti-gun agenda, this entire issue could have been avoided, ” Strawser said.

Winkler said House DFLers will pass gun control measures during this legislative session. But the bills appear to have no chance in the Republican-controlled Senate.

At Saturday’s rally, Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka made it clear. “Ain’t gonna happen,” he told the crowd. On Sunday, after Walz’s statement, Gazelka tweeted: “I’m opposed to universal background checks but this kind of language does not belong in any debate at the #mnleg”

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